ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

PRE Ph.D PAPER II IMAGE PROCESSING
(Syllabus of Pre Ph.D Paper 2 form the academic year 2013-2014)

UNIT-I
Introduction: Examples of fields that use digital image processing, fundamental steps in digital
image processing, components of image processing system.. Digital Image Fundamentals: A
simple image formation model, image sampling and quantization, basic relationships between
pixels

UNIT-II
Image enhancement in the spatial domain: Basic gray-level transformation, histogram
processing, enhancement using arithmetic and logic operators, basic spatial filtering, smoothing
and sharpening spatial filters, combining the spatial enhancement methods

UNIT-III
Color Image Processing: Color fundamentals, color models, pseudo color image processing,
basics of fullcolor image processing, color transforms, smoothing and sharpening, color
segmentation

UNIT-IV
Image Compression: Fundamentals, image compression models, error-free compression, lossy
predictive coding, image compression standards.

UNIT-V
Image Segmentation: Detection of discontinuous, edge linking and boundary detection,
thresholding, regionbased segmentation
Morphological Image Processing: Preliminaries, dilation, erosion, open and closing, hit or miss
transformation, basic morphologic algorithms

TEXT BOOK:

1. Digital Image Processing, Rafeal C.Gonzalez, Richard E.Woods, Second Edition,

Pearson Education/PHI.
REFERENCES:
1. Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and
Roger Boyle, Second Edition, Thomson Learning.
2. Introduction to Digital Image Processing with Matlab, Alasdair McAndrew, Thomson
Course Technology
3. Digital Image Processing and Analysis, B. Chanda, D. Datta Majumder, Prentice Hall of
India, 2003
4. Computer Vision and Image Processing, Adrian Low, Second Edition, B.S.Publications

5. Digital Image Processing using Matlab, Rafeal C.Gonzalez, Richard E.Woods, Steven L.
Eddins, Pearson Education.
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PART1/PRE Ph.D PAPER II: IMAGE PROCESSING
Time: 3 Hrs Model Question Paper Max.Marks: 100
Answer Any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks. (5x20=100)

1. Write a brief note on various elements of Digital image processing System, explain
image acquisition devices in detail.

2. a) Explain the formation of a simple image.

b) Explain Image Sampling and Quantization.

3. Explain the concept of histogram equalization method

4. Explain the following gray level transformation.

(i) Image negative (ii) gray level slicing

5. What is RGB color model? What are its limitations

6. Explain the procedure to convert RGB space to HIS space

7. Explain the principle of lossless and losy prediction compression methods with
relevant block diagrams

8. Define redundancy? What types of basic data redundancies is present in digital image
compression.

9. Explain the following morphological operations with examples.

(a) Dilation (b) erosion (c) opening (d) closing

10. Explain the different types of segmentation and edge detection.